Actor
Rakefet Abergel
Los Angeles, California, USA
A native of Los Angeles, Rakefet Abergel is an award-winning American/Israeli actor, writer, director, and producer. She appeared in the movie Superbad with Jonah Hill, and as Adam Sandler's sister in Just Go with It . She can also be seen in the films My Best Friend's Girl opposite Dane Cook, with Halle Berry in The Call, and alongside Eddie Murphy & Kerry Washington in the film, A Thousand Words. Rakefet also regularly guest stars on TV shows including Showtime's Shameless, New Girl, My Name is Earl, Bella and the Bulldogs, and iCarly. Her newest film, Boo, which she wrote, produced, and starred in, is her film directorial debut. Previously she also directed various episodes of a web series called "Girls on Girls". The short screenplay for Boo was a finalist in the Best Short Screenplay category at Nightmares Film Festival in Columbus, Ohio and won Best Short Script at Vancouver Bad Ass Film Festival in Canada. It also won an Honorable Mention at Women in Horror Film Festival in Atlanta and was an official selection at over 15 festivals worldwide. The first film Rakefet wrote was the award-winning horror/thriller short film called Jax in Love, which she co-produced with executive producer & casting director Jory Weitz (Napoleon Dynamite). The film, directed by Oscar-nominated director Colin Campbell made the festival rounds and garnered Abergel ten Best Actress awards from a variety of film festivals including Nightmares Film Festival, Hollywood Horrorfest, GenreBlast Film Festival, and Oregon Scream Week. The film also won Best Horror Short at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and Best Original Screenplay, as well as over 30 awards for various aspects of the film. She also teaches Hebrew to sixth and seventh graders in Los Angeles and works as an acting coach and mentor for kids and adults at Kid (F)Actor, a company she founded in 2010. Boo is the second production from Cyclamen Films, Rakefet's production company that produced Jax in Love. She is represented across the board at Bohemia Group in LA and New York.
Notable work
7.3Superbad (2007)
as Muffin Selby
6.7Just Go with It (2011)
as Patricia
8.2Shameless (2011)
as Lisa
6.8The Call (2013)
as Trainee #1
7.4New Girl (2011)
as Claire
8iCarly (2007)
as Jodi Flooger
7.7My Name Is Earl (2005)
as Wife
5.6My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
as Heavily Pierced Kid
5.4Hollywoo (2011)
as L'assistante réalisateur
7.53rd Rock from the Sun (1996)
as Carnival Guest
Often works with
Bailee Madison
2 titles together
Just Go with It, Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
Laura Slade Wiggins
2 titles together
Shameless, Boo
Miranda Cosgrove
2 titles together
iCarly, Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
Jerry Trainor
2 titles together
iCarly, Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
Nadine Velazquez
2 titles together
My Name Is Earl, Sister
Dan Lauria
2 titles together
Perception, Sister
Full filmography · 25
Mother Goose's Scary Tales
as Jax (segment: Half-Cocked)
2024
Still
as Aliya and Writer and Director
2024
Do We Really Have to Say Goodbye
cast
2020
Half-Cocked
as Jax
2019
Boo
as Devi and Director and Writer
2019
For Muriel
as Jenn
2018
Jax in Love
as Jax and Writer
2017
Sister
as Casting Director
2014
The Call
as Trainee #1
20136.8
Hollywoo
as L'assistante réalisateur
20115.4
Just Go with It
as Patricia
20116.7
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
as Janet
20087.4